GoCache

GoCache is a distributed cache system implemented by Go. It is a simplified version of groupcache, which is a go version of memcached.

This project follows blog GeeCache.

GoCache supported the following features:

• Local caching and HTTP-based distributed caching.
• LRU (Least Recent Use) cache strategy.
• Avoid cache breakdown using sync.Mutex from Go.
• Choose nodes with consistent hashing for load balance.
• Optimize binary communication between two peers with Protobuf.

• Basic Data Structure:

  • gocache/lru/lru.go: Implemented Least-Recent-Use strategy for cache
  • gocache/byteview.go: Abstruct and insulation of byte array in cache
  • gocache/cache.go: Wrap lru and mutex for concurrency control
  • gocache/gocache.go: Interact with outside, main procedure to get and update cache

• HTTP related:

  • gocache/http.go: Define a http pool and parse http request for key search
  • gocache/consistenthash/consistenthash.go: Implemented consistent hasing
  • gocache/peers.go: Define PeerPicker and PeerGetter interface
  • gocache/singleflight/singleflight.go: Implemented singleflight to prevent cache breakdown
  • gocache/gocachepb/gocachepb.proto: Use Protobuf for peers to communicate

• Other:

  • run.sh: Start the server and run main.go